Specialty Coffee Retailer is a publication for owners, managers and employees of retail outlets that sell specialty coffee. Its scope includes best sales practices, supplies, business trends and anything else to assist the small coffee retailer.
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CRIO INC. Cocoa drink brews like coffee Crio Bru is a brewed cocoa drink with the essence and health properties of dark chocolate that brews just like coffee. Crio Bru is made with one ingredient: pure, premium cocoa beans, which are roasted and milled to produce flavorful cocoa grounds. Its three varieties—Cavalla, Vega Real and Coca Rive—deliver the same intense, complex flavors of the finest cocoa beans found in artisan dark chocolate. Because Crio Bru is roasted and brewed, it has the consistency, roasted flavor and complexity of a fine coffee, yet because it is made with cocoa beans, its primary flavors are chocolatey. Just as with coffee, sweetener and creamer can be added to taste, or it can be drunk black for a bittersweet, low-calorie hot drink. For more information, visit www.criobru.com. EXCELLENT PACKAGING AND SUPPLY Tableware made from wheat fibers Excellent Packaging & Supply, a distributor of customer’s company logo for a more permanent display. For more information, visit www.flashingboards.net. MONIN More than 100 flavorings available Monin Gourmet Flavorings offers more than 100 different flavors to add versatility and profit to coffeehouse beverage menus. New coffee flavors include Caramel Apple and Spiced Brown Sugar. Monin offers many of its flavoring syrups in sugar-free versions as well. With no sugar and no calories, they are ideal to use in today’s trendy “skinny” drinks. For more information on any Monin product, call 800-966-5225 or visit www.monin.com. sustainable, biodegradable, and nature-based packaging for foodservice, has added the complete range of Bridge-Gate compostable serving ware and take-out packaging. Bridge-Gate plates, bowls, clamshells and hinged containers, trays, platters and lids are all made from renewable, organic, GMO-free agricultural wheat fibers that are a natural byproduct of crop harvests and certified compostable by the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI). Bridge-Gate serviceware products are designed to disintegrate and biodegrade swiftly and safely in both a backyard compost pile and a professionally managed composting facility. For more information, visit www.biomasspackaging.com. INBRU Flavoring added to coffee pre-brew InBru coffee flavoring is added to ground coffee before brewing. It can work in drip, French press or pour-over systems to add one of 15 flavors to ground coffee, including Cinnamon Hazelnut, Pumpkin Pie, Peppermint Stick and Highlander Grogg. InBru also can be sold as a home-use or gift item, with an 18-month shelf life. For more information, call 314-991-1700 or visit www.inbru.com. FLASHING BOARDS Lighted boards make for instant ‘neon’ Flashing Boards display signs use LED lighting in various color and flash configurations to provide an attention-grabbing, ever-changing display that can be easily drawn and changed. The clear boards can be drawn on with water-based markers that wipe away easily. Once the message is drawn, seven LED colors highlight the markings in an eye- catching “neon” effect. Flashing Board will also design stickers with a 38 | August 2011 • www.specialty-coffee.com GROWERS ALLIANCE COFFEE Mushroom extract puts health benefits in cup Red Mushroom coffee is premium, organic Kenyan coffee with extract from Reishi mushrooms added. Reishi, also known as Ganoderma Lucidum, is a rare red mushroom that has been used as a traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine for more than 5,000 years. Fine powder from the reishi mushroom extract is blended with top quality organic certified Kenyan coffee for health benefits that include improved liver function, lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol. For more information, call 904-371-7869 or access www. growersalliancecoffee.com. THE COFFEETRADE CO. Coffee substitute is unique, caffeine-free Ersatz Coffee is a blend of roasted rice, chicory and chickpeas that provides a no-caffeine, gluten-free alternative to coffee and tea. It has a nutty-and- roasted-grain flavor with chocolate notes. Ersatz is sold in packages of 12 brewing-bags, each making one 8-oz. cup when steeped in hot water for three to five minutes. For more information, visit www.ersatzcoffee.com. BRIDGE-GATE ALLIANCE GROUP Containers manufactured with less energy Natural brown dinnerware and hinged containers are produced by Bridge-Gate Alliance Group with a chemical-free process that eliminates the pulp drying process, using less water and energy. Bridge- Gate starts with the purest raw materials, the natural byproducts of agricultural waste, and conserves energy throughout the production and order fulfillment cycle, from field to factory to serving counter. For more information, visit www.bridge-gate.com. HERITAGE BAG CO. Trash bags help composting BioTuf bags are designed to divert food waste for composting in municipal facilities. Even if they land in landfills, the compostable and photodegradable bags do not threaten the water table, have a lower